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La vida exagerada de Martín Romaña (Alfredo Bryce Echenique)

Martin Romagna, a Peruvian who lives in Paris, reviving its bohemian past nostalgically writing their experiences in a blue notebook from a Voltaire armchair type. Recalls his arrival in Paris with the aim of becoming a writer, his romantic and poor existence, the arrival of his future wife from Peru and especially the coexistence of both in the context of the student protests of May 68.

This book fell into my hands thanks to the gift of a family could hardly recognize you decide to buy it if I had browsed in a bookstore.

The beginning of the reading made me hard. The first pages are reflections of the protagonist about what is going to tell and the feelings that led him to decide to write their own history. All this in an intimate tone and apparently anarchic. To further complicate the reader's progress is written as spoken (or rather thought) a Peruvian, with all the linguistic peculiarities of that country.

Early in the face of these difficulties and more than five hundred pages that lay ahead, I went through your mind to leave the reading.

However, the more I read I found it easier to keep turning pages and ended up enjoying the story.

The events that occur to the protagonist, his view of life, her fine sense of humor, were seeping slowly into me until the end Bryce Echenique got Romagna Martin saw an old acquaintance.

relationship with his wife is very complex, he just wants to be a writer and she sees the revolution the universal panacea, which believes that Martin is wasting his life instead of putting their talents to the cause. The revolution being waged in the streets of Paris at 68, is even more important to her than her husband. The book clearly reflects the contradictions of the young idealists of the time, raised under strict traditional Catholic upbringing, but who devote themselves to socialist or communist ideology, to years later (in the eighties) end up becoming the most hated, big businessmen, unscrupulous politicians, artists supported to serve the law of the dollar.

In short, I think it is an easy book to read in the beginning, but once you get him to recognize a job well written, complex and totally believable despite some crazy stories that he narrated.

My Rating: good.